{"id":54383,"date":"2020-12-05T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=54383"},"modified":"2020-12-05T10:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:12:31","slug":"the-tories-who-would-have-thought-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/05\/the-tories-who-would-have-thought-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tories: who would have thought it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tories_(British_political_party)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a political term, <i>Tory<\/i> was an insult (derived from the <a title=\"Middle Irish\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Irish\">Middle Irish<\/a> word <i lang=\"mga\" title=\"Middle Irish (900-1200) language text\">t\u00c3\u00b3raidhe<\/i>, modern <a title=\"Irish language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irish_language\">Irish<\/a> <i lang=\"ga\" title=\"Irish language text\">t\u00c3\u00b3ra\u00c3\u00ad<\/i>, meaning \"<a title=\"Outlaw\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Outlaw\">outlaw<\/a>\", \"robber\", from the Irish word <i lang=\"ga\" title=\"Irish language text\">t\u00c3\u00b3ir<\/i>, meaning \"pursuit\" since outlaws were \"pursued men\")<sup id=\"cite_ref-5\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tories_(British_political_party)#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tories_(British_political_party)#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup> that entered <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"English politics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_politics\">English politics<\/a> during the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Exclusion Bill\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exclusion_Bill\">Exclusion Bill<\/a> crisis of 1678\u20141681.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have seen it said that the description \u2018toe-rag\u2019 has the same etymology. That\u2019s not commonly suggested. I can easily see that it is possible, especially given the use made of it in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: As a political term, Tory was an insult (derived from the Middle Irish word t\u00c3\u00b3raidhe, modern Irish t\u00c3\u00b3ra\u00c3\u00ad, meaning &#8220;outlaw&#8221;, &#8220;robber&#8221;, from the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2020\/12\/05\/the-tories-who-would-have-thought-it\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}